{"id":1071,"date":"2007-08-08T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/8a1ffce6174c5480f3bc911d80d35507"},"modified":"2007-08-08T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:11:15","slug":"low-cost-computing-with-the-efika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Low-cost computing with the EFIKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing todays unofficial topic of low-cost and low-power motherboards, I thought I should mention the EFIKA mainboard. I've mentioned <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4580\">EFIKA<\/a><\/b> before as an organisation who are trying to think beyond the ordinary grey\/beige box design and think more about the power that we really need on the desktop. <\/p>\n<p>Since that post back in February, EFIKA have released a version of their mainboard for just $99 (see <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/bbrv.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/99-efika-on-road-to-mobility.html\">The $99 EFIKA - on the Road to Mobility<\/a><\/b>). Like the VIA boards, the $99 EFIKA mainboard includes pretty much everything you should need in a very small and capable format. You'll have to add storage, RAM, a PSU and keyboard\/monitor, but you'll save the planet and the electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=6xefaO\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=6xefaO\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142112768\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing todays unofficial topic of low-cost and low-power motherboards, I thought I should mention the EFIKA mainboard. I&#8217;ve mentioned <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4580\">EFIKA<\/a><\/b> before as an organisation who are trying to think beyond the ordinary grey\/beige box design and think more about the power that we really need on the desktop. <\/p>\n<p>Since that post back in February, EFIKA have released a version of their mainboard for just $99 (see <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/bbrv.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/99-efika-on-road-to-mobility.html\">The $99 EFIKA &#8211; on the Road to Mobility<\/a><\/b>). Like the VIA boards, the $99 EFIKA mainboard includes pretty much everything you should need in a very small and capable format. You&#8217;ll have to add storage, RAM, a PSU and keyboard\/monitor, but you&#8217;ll save the planet and the electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=6xefaO\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=6xefaO\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142112768\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}